Genesis 29:20

New American Bible - revised edition

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 29:27

Finish the bridal week for this one, and then the other will also be given to you in return for another seven years of service with me.”

Genesis 29:30

Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years. Jacob’s Children.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I served you and let me go, for you know the service that I rendered you.”

Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? He not only sold us; he has even used up the money that he got for us!

Genesis 34:19

The young man lost no time in acting on the proposal, since he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more highly regarded than anyone else in his father’s house.

Hosea 12:12

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 12:13

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

1 Samuel 18:23

But when Saul’s servants mentioned this to David, he said: “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law a trivial matter in your eyes? I am poor and insignificant.”